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EXERCISE. (See Gymnastics.) EXETER (Indian name Swamscot); a posttown of New Hampshire, in Rockingham county, 14 miles S. W. by W. of Portsmouth, 15 N. N. W. of Newburyport, 18 N. N. E. of Haverhill, 40 S. E. by E. of Concord, 47 N. by E. of Boston; population in 1820, 2114. It is pleasantly situated at the head of tidewater and of navigation, on Exeter river, and is one of the most considerable towns in the state, and was formerly the seat of government. It contains a courthouse, a jail, 2 banks, an academy, 3 printingoffices, and 3 houses of public worship, 2 for Congregationalists and 1 for Baptists. It is favorably situated for a manufacturing town, and contains several manufactories, and many valuable mills. Phillips Exeter academy, in this town, was founded by the honorable John Phillips, LL. D., in 1781. It is one of the oldest, best endowed, and most respectable institutions of the kind in the United States. It has a principal, a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy, and a professor of languages, about 80 students, a library of about 700 volumes, and a handsome philosophical apparatus.